"Providing India's scientists with more computing power to conduct research will lead to more scientific breakthroughs for the nation and the rest of the world," said Marc Sultzbaugh, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Mellanox Technologies. "Our FDR InfiniBand solution provides India's scientists with the performance, scalability and efficiency needed to meet the requirements of research workloads and simulations today and into the future."

The cluster was built in conjunction with Netweb Technologies using Tyrone-based servers.

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